Posted on 04/18/2014 11:41:41 AM PDT by C19fan
A citrus disease spread by a tiny insect has devastated Florida's orange crop, which is expected to be the worst in nearly 30 years, and sent juice prices soaring on New York markets.
The culprit? The gnat-sized Asian citrus psyllid, which is infecting citrus trees across the Sunshine State with huanglongbing, or citrus greening disease, which causes fruit to taste bitter and fall from trees too soon.
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Where’s Beeks?
ping
"Unless that crop report........"
Juice for May delivery, the most traded, rose seven percent in three trading sessions to $1.67 a pound.
From 1.55 a pound to 1.67 a pound. That is soring????? These articles are hilarious with their “sky is falling” nonsense.
I’m in Texas and have a dwarf Mandarin orange tree on my deck. Maybe it will give me oranges, or not. There are very small green round things on it and those have to be oranges. The question is, will they develop? At least it’s not sick with Florida disease.
“Under my plan the price of oranges will necessarily skyrocket.” - Obama
And we will sell them to the schools
huang long bing.....means....big ????
I can get no-salt tomato juice for a buck a half gallon on sale.
I’ve pretty much switched to that for breakfast. Saves about 50 calories a day.
I still love OJ though....
Why do I think this was sabotage??
Thank the phony enviros who caused the ban on DDT wich would have nipped this in the bud.
Not faulting you for posting this but have you noticed a tendency for the media to portray every vagary of agriculture as a crisis that will send prices skyrocketing?
Gluts of anything are understandably rare - with adequate notice, producers would rather reduce output than to crash the market.
If the media would have us believe in price equilibrium between supply and demand, why does the price not trend back towards the previous point after the crisis is over?
There seems to be a hidden assumption that demand will remain steady.
With the stagnent economy, I can foresee a steady decline in demand as prices rise resulting in not so precipitous rise in the price of oj.
Groves here are spraying daily. There’s a prediction this is the death of back-yard citrus and that only big groves can afford the treatment programs necessary to stave off the disease. Makes folks long for the day when it was just citrus canker that was the fear.
And where the heck is Beeks?
Try Sunny Delight no juice required , LOL
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